"….cunning often reveals itself in the simplest things. The
streets through which I now walk confirm this truth. The maneuver that
brought victory to the Bolsheviks consisted of expelling and expropriating
the merchants (independent people who guided themselves by the laws of the
marketplace) and placing clerks in their stores-meek and obedient
instruments of the authorities. The man behind the counter was replaced by
the man behind the desk: the Revolution triumphed."

Ruszard Kapuscinski
Imperium

"The Bolsheviks came into being in 1903, at an angling Club in London

-Anthony Read

The World on Fire 1919 and the Battle With Bolshevism

"We are running a race with Bolshevism and the World is on fire...."

-president Woodrow Wilson 1919 Paris Peace Conference.

"They will say, "How can we leave them in peace when they set about
setting world on fire? To that I would answer, "We are at war, messieurs!'

-Lenin-on the founding of the Third International."

-Moscow Mar 1919

"The Bolshevist Government won't last six months more."

-Walter Duranty (New York Times foreign correspondent) May 27,1920

"Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever."

-Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin

"Once someone has proclaimed violence as his METHOD, he must inexorably
select the lie as his PRINCIPLE."

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Nobel Lecture on Literature

"One of the abiding myths of the twentieth century is that
many Western intellectuals sympathized with the Soviet Union because they
were unaware of the true nature of the regime established by the Bolsheviks.
according to this mythology, a lack of information allowed or encouraged
them to six their minds on the regime's declared ideals, and to ignore its
terrible realities. Their sympathy, therefore, was a manifestation of
generosity of spirit; they were guilty (if of anything at all) only of an
error of judgment.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The nature of
Bolshevism was reported from the very first, immediately after the
Revolution and continuously thereafter. Neither Khrushchev's famous speech
nor the work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn revealed anything that was not
already known....."

-Anthony Daniels Last Exit to utopia by
Jean-Francois Revel

"Bolshevism is knocking at our gates, we can't afford to let it in....We
must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away
from red literature and red ruses, we must see that his mind remains
healthy."

-Al Capone Liberty magazine

"What are the Bolsheviki? They are representatives of the most
democratic government in Europe....Let us recognize the truest democracy in
Europe, the truest democracy in the world today."

-William Randolph Hearst 1918

"Under the stipulation of the Red Terror, mistaken ruthlessness would be
forgiven, mistaken mercy might not."

-William Vollmann, Europe Central

"....Without mercy, without sparing, we will kill our enemies in scores
of hundreds. Let them be thousands, let them drown themselves in their own
blood. For the blood of Lenin....let there be floods of blood of the
bourgeoisie-more blood, as much as possible.

The Bolshevik newspaper Krasnaya Gazeta

"We must execute not only the guilty. Execution of the innocent will
impress the masses even more."

-Attributed to N.V. Krylinko

"Our ideas are our weapons."

-Propaganda Billboard in Cuba

"The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God."

-Whittaker Chambers, 'Witness'

"All worship of a divinity is a necrophilia."

-Vladimir Lenin

"I broke sharply with all questions of religion. I took off my cross
and threw it in the rubbish bin."

-Vladimir Lenin

"Any religious idea, any idea of any God at all, any flirtation even
with a God is the most inexpressible foulness.....the most dangerous
foulness, the most shameful 'infection'"

-Vladimir Lenin

"Lenin was Jesus....They wanted you to worship Lenin."

-Ukranian Olena Dosviskaya

"Only enemies of the Soviet Union can think of the KGB as some kind
of Secret Police."

-Yuri Andropov (Director of the KGB) 1967

"If we do not apply terror and immediate executions, we will get
nowhere. It is better that a hundred innocent are killed than one guilty
person escapes."

Lenin

"Persons inclined to abstract thinking persist in seeing in
Bolshevism not what it actually is, but what it ought to be according to
their theoretical deductions."

Ouspensky

"....The revolution carried out in the name of economic rationality
and the end of the State as a form of political dominance resulted in its
opposite: a grotesque economic madhouse overseen by one of the most brutal
machines of political oppression of the modern age. The ex ante dream
was the seed of the ex post nightmare."

-Eduardo Giannetti

Lies We Live By: The Art of Self-Deception

"It is from the intellectual "mob," with the failures from all academic
professions the spiritually unfit and the morally inhibited, at its head,
that the gangsters of Liberal and Bolshevik risings are recruited."

-Oswald Spengler

"In his speeches and lectures Lysenko mixed the 'branch
of science' of vernalization with the class struggle, against the so-called
scientists and 'Kulaks'. He called geneticists and farmers 'class enemies'
and thus gained the support of Stalin who, at the Party Congress in 1935,
exclaimed: 'Bravo, Comrade Lysenko, bravo!"

Alexander Kohn

False Prophets:Fraud and Error in Science and Medicine

"As the years went by, Lysenko became more and more powerful and
reached the peak of his influence in the Soviet establishment in the years
1948-52, when he was unequivocally supported by Stalin himself. At the 1948
session of the Lenin All Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (LAAAS).
Lysenko made this chilling statement: "The question is asked in one of
the notes handed to me: 'What is the attitude of the Central Committee of
the Party to my report? I answer: "The Central Committee of the Party
has examined my report and approved it!". Lysenko received a standing
ovation for that statement. By that time he had succeeded in destroying the
science of genetics in the Soviet Union completely, and had had the most
important geneticists removed from their posts; in some instances they had
been arrested and even executed."

ibid

"Bourgeois biology, by its very essence, because it is bourgeois,
neither could nor can make any discoveries that have to be based on the
absence of intraspecific competition, a principle it does not recognize.
That is why American scientists could not adopt the practice of cluster
sowing. They, servants of capitalism, need not struggle with the elements,
with nature! They need an invented struggle between two kinds of wheat
belonging to the same species. By means of fabricated intraspecific
competition, 'the eternal laws of nature', they are attempting to justify
the class struggle and the oppression, by white Americans, of Negroes.."

Lysenko T.D.

Agrobiologiya

"But then came the Bolshevik seizure of power. "In
a period of sixteen month s(from June 1918 to October 1919) more than sixteen
thousand persons were shot, which is to say more than one thousand
a month.." These executions, carried out by the Cheka without trial
and by revolutionary tribunals without due process, were executions of
people exclusively accused of political crimes. And this was only a drop in
the sea of executions to come. The true figures will never be known, but in
the two years 1937 and 1938, according to the executioners themselves, half
a million "political prisoners" were shot, or 20,000- a
month.

To measure these deaths on a historical scale. Solzhenitsyn
also compared them to the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, which during
the height of its existence condemned an average of 10 heretics a month. The
difference was this: the Inquisition only forced unbelievers to believe in a
world unseen; socialism demanded that they believe in the very life that the
revolution had condemned them to live."

David Horowitz

The Politics of Bad Faith

"Lenin, who spent most of his life in the West and not in Russia, who
knew the West much better than Russia, always wrote and said that the
Western capitalists would do anything to strengthen the economy of the U.S.S.
R. They will compete with each other to sell us cheaper goods and sell them
quicker, so that the Soviets will buy from one rather than from the other.
He said: They will bring us everything themselves without thinking about
their future."

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Democracy is but one form of state, and we Marxists are opposed to
all and every kind of state."

-Lenin

"He (Reagan) called us the "Evil Empire.' So why did you in the
West laugh at him? It's true!"

-Arkady Murashev, Moscow Police Chief

"one step forward , two steps back....it happens in the lives of
individuals, and it happens in the history of nations and in the development
of parties. It would be the most criminal cowardice to doubt even for a
moment the inevitable and complete triumph of the principles of
revolutionary Social-Democracy, of proletarian organization and Party
discipline. we have already won a great deal, and we must go on fighting."

-Lenin

"On the eve of the implosion of the regime founded by Lenin,
anticommunism is without a doubt more widely condemned in the West than it
was in the fair-weather days of victoriousness and fascism."

-Furet The Black Book

"Pro nazi revisionists are few in number; the communist variety are
legion. In France, there is a law that provides for sanctions against the
lies of Holocaust deniers, Yet Communists are permitted to lie with impunity
about the crimes of their chosen camp. Here the word "camp" may be taken as
referring not only to a political position but to all that the word implies
in its plural form: the Soviet gulag of yesterday as well as China's network
of concentration camps, the Laogai, which is in full swing today, with
thousands of summary executions every year. These are but the most notorious
examples of a type of institution endemic to all Communist regimes."

Jean Francois Revel Last Exit to Utopia

"The inhumanity of the Mao era, which left China in moral shambles, is the
most important cause of the widespread and oft-noted "values vacuum" that we
observe today. In this situation sexual indulgence becomes a handy partner
for a dictatorship that is trying to stay on top of a society of rising
prosperity....The idea of sexual freedom did not support political democracy
so much as it harked back to traditions of sexual abandon in China's
imperial times....This has been just fine with today's dictators. It fits
with the moral rot and political gangsterism that years of hypocrisy have
generated, and it diverts the thirst for freedom into a politically
innocuous direction."

-Liu Xiaobo

"Cuba, it seems, has an excellent education system, low
infant mortality, period motor cars and laws against any sort of private
enterprise or trading, which means that all cattle have to be handed over to
the government when ready for slaughter. The result of this law is that
Cubans have become expert at killing and butchering in five minutes flat and
that the police constantly search cars for carefully packed, illicit Sunday
dinners.

Castro thought it would interesting and productive to
introduce water buffalo to the island. These animals, in hot weather, were
accustomed to stand up to their necks in swamps in order to keep cool.
Platoons of police kept watch over them and made a careful head count. In
time, the officers noticed that many of the heads had started to droop and
their eyes looked distinctly exhausted. further investigation into the swamp
revealed that about a hundred of the bodies had been carved into saleable
joints and nothing remained but a herd of heads on poles, to symbolize the
collapse of communist economics."

John Mortimer The Summer of a Dormouse

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